Homogenization and impoverishment of taxonomic and functional diversity of ants in Eucalyptus plantations
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-20823-1" target="_blank" >https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-20823-1</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-20823-1" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41598-018-20823-1</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Homogenization and impoverishment of taxonomic and functional diversity of ants in Eucalyptus plantations
Original language description
Despite its negative impacts on the environment and biodiversity, tree plantations can contribute to biodiversity conservation in fragmented landscapes, as they harbor many native species. In this study, we investigated the impact of Eucalyptus plantations on the taxonomic and functional diversity of ant communities, comparing ant communities sampled in managed and unmanaged (abandoned for 28 years) Eucalyptus plantations, and native Atlantic rain forests. Eucalyptus plantations, both managed and unmanaged, reduced the functional diversity and increased the similarity between ant communities leading to functional homogenization. While communities in managed plantations had the lowest values of both taxonomic and functional ant diversities, ant communities from unmanaged plantations had similar values of species richness, functional redundancy and Rao's Q compared to ant communities from forest patches (although functional richness was lower). In addition, communities in unmanaged Eucalyptus plantations were taxonomically and functionally more similar to communities located in managed plantations, indicating that Eucalyptus plantations have a severe long-term impact on ant communities. These results indicate that natural regeneration may mitigate the impact of Eucalyptus management, particularly regarding the functional structure of the community (a diversity), although it does not attenuate the effects of long term homogenization in community composition (beta diversity).
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10618 - Ecology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Scientific Reports
ISSN
2045-2322
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
8
Issue of the periodical within the volume
FEB 19 2018
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
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UT code for WoS article
000425380900049
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85042216386